There is one huge up-side to having twenty landscaping seasons under my belt: new experiences really stick out. Last year […]
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are garden club plant sales a waste of time?
I visited the Dogwood Garden Club plant sale two years ago but, because I arrived very late, there were only […]
why this evergreen was doomed from day of planting
I was working at a large strata site last week and when I walked by the entrance, my boss casually […]
Distressed by European chafer beetles
I see this all the time on the West Coast. A middle-aged man who loves the lawn patch in front […]
Fartlek for professional bloggers
If you run regularly you will know what fartlek is. If you don’t like running, I will define it for […]
Early season fun with shrubs
There is always an interesting early season stretch between the end of winter and early spring. It’s warmer but not […]
Landscapers as industrial athletes
When I worked at the City of Coquitlam parks department in 2014-2015, I had to deliver a lunch time safety […]
apprentice notes on landscape horticulture level 2
I interviewed landscape horticulture apprentice Lynda after she completed level one of her program. You can read that blog post […]
Commercial landscaping: lessons from parking lot islands
This past weekend I was in Seattle, USA, for my son’s soccer tournament and I managed to escape briefly to […]
When landscaping meets horticulture
Once in a while landscaping and horticulture collide in the field and we get a classic dilemma. Two choices and […]
